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Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: Fianna Fáil closed ten.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: We missed Senator Wilson in McKee Barracks this morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: It ill behoves the leader of the main Opposition group in this House to criticise the Taoiseach. As I said yesterday, he is the most amiable and approachable Taoiseach who ever stood in shoe leather in these Houses.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I believe he has informed the Leader of the House that he will come to the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I gather from the Leader, who is absent today, that he intends to come to this House before the summer recess.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: We will hear more about that. The Senators opposite will recall that a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach came to this House twice or three times over a ten-year period.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I do not want to be critical of any former Taoiseach.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I want to deal with another matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I think the Senator is way off beam.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Leyden has missed a more senior person.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: More seriously-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I am not. I do not intend to. Senator Darragh O'Brien has misquoted the Minister, Deputy Noonan. The Minister for Finance said that the Government, on behalf of this country, intends to do everything within the Union to assist our colleagues in Greece.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: The Minister said that Ireland will do all it can at EU level to hold Greece within the euro, if possible. He made it clear that he is putting no obstacles in the way of Greece's future in the Union and in the euro. That conference is something else. With respect, the Senator is misquoting the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I am telling the Senator that he is misquoting the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: I look forward to hearing what the Deputy Leader has to say on these matters. Perhaps she will be more categoric that I can be.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: Precisely. Name and shame.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: It is as true there as it was here.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: It is not always a question for the economy, it is a national one-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2012)

Paul Coghlan: -----and affects the tourism industry.